This may or may not be helpful, I was just playing with it. It's on Linux, Suse 7.3, x86, plain configure --prefix=/usr/local/somewhere .. make .. make install, built with gcc 3.0.4 On the other hand it built successfully. I can dig a little more if you want, but I don't care if you don't respond, as I say I was just playing. #0 0x402b1888 in XtInitializeWidgetClass () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 #1 0x402b1bdf in xtWidgetAlloc () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 #2 0x402b1dc0 in xtCreate () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 #3 0x402b271b in _XtCreatePopupShell () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 #4 0x402b27bd in XtCreatePopupShell () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 #5 0x08245dcd in x_create_widgets (f=0x861bce0, lisp_window_id=137437876, parent=137437876) at frame-x.c:1924 #6 0x08246783 in x_init_frame_1 (f=0x861bce0, props=137437876, frame_name_is_defaulted=1) at frame-x.c:2152 #7 0x0813f24c in Fmake_frame (props=137437876, device=140020096) at frame.c:424 #8 0x080d991c in Ffuncall (nargs=3, args=0xbfffd504) at eval.c:3767 #9 0x0809cf53 in execute_optimized_program ( program=0x8384590 "Æ \210Ç ?­&È\fÉ \"¬\027Ê\r\013\"\022Ë\rÈ\tÌ \"＠\"\211\020\026\020Í\r!\025Î\016\021!\210Ï\211\024\207", stack_depth=5, constants_data=0x83bae98) at bytecode.c:675 #10 0x080d957d in Ffuncall (nargs=1, args=0xbfffd814) at eval.c:3390 #11 0x0809cf53 in execute_optimized_program ( program=0x83715d8 "\013A\035ÆÇ\032\031È\r!\025\bÉa«\004Ê \210ËÌ!«\004Í \210ËÌ!«\017ËÎ!«\aÏÐ!\210ª\004Ñ \210\f«\017\016%¬\013ÒÓÔ\f!ÕQ! \210Ö \210*× \210ËØ!«\004Ù \210ËÚ!«\004Û \210Ü \210rÝÞ!q\210ß \210àá!\210\016)âa«\005\016* \210)ã äa«\bå ¬\004æ \210ç \210á\026+å ­\004èÇ!)\207", stack_depth=4, constants_data=0x847d608) at bytecode.c:675 #12 0x080d84b3 in Feval (form=138864076) at eval.c:3390 #13 0x080d4dff in condition_case_1 (handlers=138864364, bfun=0x80d7c40 <Feval>, barg=138864076, hfun=0x80d4f20 <run_condition_case_handlers>, harg=137569340) at eval.c:1856 #14 0x080d525f in condition_case_3 (bodyform=138864076, var=137569340, handlers=138864364) at eval.c:1938 #15 0x0809e0de in execute_rare_opcode (stack_ptr=0xbfffe06c, program_ptr=0x837a3e9 "\210Ð\r!\025\016-«\016âÖã\016-ä å $!\0264æç!\210\016(«\005æè!\210Ü\026(é \210\016*«\005æê!\210Ü\026*\t«\bë\t＠\tA\"\210)\0165­\003ì \207", opcode=Bcondition_case) at bytecode.c:1200 #16 0x0809cceb in execute_optimized_program ( program=0x837a368 "\b«\005ÆÇ!\207È\020ÉÊ!«\tËÌÉÊ!!!\210Í \211\034«\025\fG\rGW«\016Î\r!Î\f!k«\005Ï\f!\025)Ð\r!\025Ñ \210Ò \210\013®\aÉÓ!­\002È\eÔ\016.\016/\"\022\013«\tÕÖ×\n\"Ø\"\210\n¬\004Ù \210Ú\n\0160\0161«\004Ȫ\006\0162­\002Û\0163\013Ü&\006\210Ý \210)Þ \210Ü\031ßàá\217\210Ð\r!\025\016-«\016âÖã\016-ä å $!\0264æç!\210\016(«\005æè!\210Ü\026(é \210\016*«\005æê!\210Ü\026*\t«\bë\t＠\tA\"\210)\0165­\003ì \207", stack_depth=8, constants_data=0x8483210) at bytecode.c:581 #17 0x080d84b3 in Feval (form=138870040) at eval.c:3390 #18 0x080d4dff in condition_case_1 (handlers=137437972, bfun=0x80d7c40 <Feval>, barg=138870040, hfun=0x80aa4a0 <cmd_error>, harg=137437876) at eval.c:1856 #19 0x080aa5ff in top_level_1 (dummy=137437876) at cmdloop.c:214 #20 0x080d4ada in internal_catch (tag=137514332, func=0x80aa5d0 <top_level_1>, arg=137437876, threw=0x0, thrown_tag=0x0) at eval.c:1479 #21 0x080a9cb5 in initial_command_loop (load_me=137437876) at cmdloop.c:293 #22 0x080cfbda in xemacs_21_5_b7_i686_pc_linux (argc=1, argv=0xbfffea54, envp=0xbfffea5c, restart=0) at emacs.c:2347 #23 0x080d0d7b in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfffea54, envp=0xbfffea5c) at emacs.c:2785 #24 0x4051a7ee in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6